✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
20th ASEAN-India Summit gets underway in Jakarta
1. PM Modi has embarked upon a two-day visit to 🇮🇩Indonesia to attend the 20th ASEAN-India Summit and 18th East Asia Summit. Summit being hosted by Indonesia as the current Chair of ASEAN ( Association of Southeast Asian Nations).
2. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday held a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Jakarta on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit.
3. US president Joe Biden will hold a bilateral meeting with PM Modi on 8 September on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in New Delhi. The two leaders are likely to sign a pact on small nuclear reactors and discuss the next steps in the jet engine and drone deals.
4. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s decision to skip the G20 summit is being seen in host India as a snub to New Delhi and a new setback to the already frozen relations between the nuclear-armed Asian giants.
India’s foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment on Tuesday on Beijing’s decision to send Premier Li Qiang for the Sept. 9-10 summit instead of Xi. Relations between India and China nosedived after soldiers from both sides clashed in the western Himalayas in June 2020.
5. The United States 🇺🇸 rejected the so-called “standard map” claims by China and called on the nation to comport with its maritime claims in the South 🇨🇳China Sea and elsewhere.
6. INDIA EMERGED AS THE VOICE OF GLOBAL SOUTH : When India assumed the G20 presidency on December 1, 2022, PM Modi set out various visions for the nation’s year-long presidency and the Global South was one of them.
Global South is used to refer to developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, while economically developed countries such as the United States, Canada, Europe, Russia, Australia and New Zealand constitute Global North.
7. Ministry of Tourism in collaboration with the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), unveils the G20 Tourism and SDG Dashboard.
8. India introduces the world’s first mobile hospital, the Arogya Maitri Cube, as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Project BHISHM” (Bharat Health Initiative for Sahyog Hita and Maitri).
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Saudi Arabia took the initiative to host talks earlier this month on how to bring an end to the 🇺🇦Ukraine war with the participation of senior officials from 40 countries, including the United States, China, and India. However, it was quite surprising that 🇷🇺Russia, the key player in this conflict, was not invited to the talks.
2. A Massive anti-government protests are being held in Muzaffarabad city of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to raise the issue of high inflation and corruption by the politicians.The rally organised by the lawyers and civil society members was joined by a large number of women.
3. US military test-launched Minuteman-III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile from the Vanderberg Space Force Base in California on Wednesday.
4. Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses to restore the Black Sea Grain deal.
5. Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio delivered an address to the leaders attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit meetings in Indonesia. This year commemorates the 50th anniversary of friendship and cooperation between Japan and ASEAN.
6. 🇻🇺Vanuatu’s parliament elected Sato Kilman as the nation’s new prime minister after a court upheld a vote of no-confidence in his predecessor, who had sought closer ties with US allies amid China-US rivalry in the Pacific Islands.
7. Flooding in southern Brazil leaves at least 31 dead and 1,600 homeless.
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